I really need to go on an exclamation point fast! Last one! Nope! One more!
the sebastopol office
It'll be great to be able to work with Derek. I've been a big fan of his design for a long, long time. (It turns out that he's a nice guy too!) You've seen his work before, but my mom hasn't. Hi Mom! Derek has done powazek.com, fray.com, kvetch.com, and sfstories.com...among others.
Nice new look you've got there, Meg.
The only complaining worth doing on the Internet is complaining about all of the complaining that goes on. So, geez, how about all this complaining? Is it driving you nuts too?
Do you stockpile Edward Tufte books, have a metaphor for Brenda Laurel, think Mac OS 6 was elegant, mock up text documents in Photoshop first, AND stand behind one-way glass and take notes while computer illiterates point and click and such? If so, you may be participating in Interface Culture and not even know it. All of this is my vague idea of what Interface Culture is like anyway. I usually stay away from interfaces (so it's not my culture). I'd like to know what these folks are really like, though. peterme asks what this interface community is interested in on sxswbaby!. It seems like they're interested in tabs.
mp3audiobooks.com seems long and clumsy for $8 million. I hope they can take it back if it doesn't work for them. They should have made up a name. Like librio.com. Then they could have spent that $8 million on marketing and brand building. Librio: Your one stop for MP3 audio books. Because, come on, who's going to type in that long clumsy domain randomly for fun? They're still going to have to advert the hell out of that sucker.
My socks don't match. I usually wear black socks. They are all slightly different shades. I couldn't find two alike this morning. I don't care.
Lots of good stuff coming up at the Fillmore in SF. Gomez, Los Lobos, Guster, and more!
My post made me think of this quote from Thich Nhat Hanh - "We have many Zen centers. We need more Zen corners."
I purchased a signed copy of a book called Crooked Cucumber for my friend Meg a while back. She liked it so much that I figured I should get one for myself. So tonight skp and I went to Petaluma and listened to David Chadwick read from the book and tell stories. He was funny. I also found out that he lives in the same town as me. His book is a biography of Suzuki Roshi -- the Zen master who came from Japan to San Francisco in 1959 and founded the Zen center there. A good anecdote from his talk: "Someone asked Suzuki Roshi, What is Zen? He answered: What is brown rice? I like this question better."
my hotmail account gets a lot of spam. the ammount is astounding, really. It makes me wonder if Microsoft somehow helps spammers reach their audience. I like this: "Now you can receive FREE Jokes, FREE Horoscopes, FREE Info on Free Stuff, FREE Weird But True News in your e-mail!!" Holy Shit! No way! Sign me up for life! How do they do it for FREE?! I wanna party with that list!